Social Anxiety from the Perspective of Modernity

ZHANG Yao;ZHANG Yantao;School of Marxism,Xiamen University;

Modernity is a defining feature in the process of modernization.Modernization brings us ont only great achievements and properties in material,but also corresponding mental crisis,including social anxiety.Nowadays,anxiety,as a kind of common spiritual phenomenons of social members,has become one of the significant features of modern society,which constitutes the real-life situation of modern human and therefore the anxiety management comes into being.From the modern perspective,modern society characterized by prevailing of "social risk", "technical rationality" and " nihilism" becomes the hotbed of "social anxiety" and "anxiety management" is the process of realization of human nature.